Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Thanks for all the fish!
Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2011 18:52:21
Message-Id: 201106062049.38095.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Thanks for all the fish! by Alan Mackenzie
1 Apparently, though unproven, at 20:32 on Monday 06 June 2011, Alan Mackenzie
2 did opine thusly:
3
4 > Hi, Gentoo.
5 >
6 > Just to say I'll be withdrawing from this list in a few days,
7 > unsubscribing actually, mainly so that I can go back to being an Emacs
8 > developer; the number of emails on both lists combined is just more than
9 > I can handle comfortably.
10 >
11 > I've counted 28 questions I've asked since late 2009, and every single
12 > one of them bar two got good answers too. One of those two I answered
13 > myself just after posting the email ;-), and the other is currently a
14 > bug report.
15 >
16 > I'd like to say THANK YOU to everybody who helped me get a well running
17 > Gentoo system and patiently taught me about it, but in particular to
18 > Alan McKinnon because he's got such a splendid name.
19
20 Aw shucks, now you made me blush :-)
21
22 I know what you mean about the quality of user around here - no other list I'm
23 on anywhere else comes close. I know I whinge a lot about the many wonderful
24 ways Gentoo can break, but I keep coming back. Part of it is the ease of
25 changing things around and trying new versions, but mostly it's because of the
26 folks here.
27
28 --
29 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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